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It's interesting though, there are a number of other counties in the same area
有趣的是，附近地區還有一些其他的縣
That they have the same characteristics, some in Tennessee and a few other places as well
也有著相同的特征，例如一些在田納西及其他區域的縣
So, oh yeah, ok, here is Tennessee, you can see ok, so, here is what's interesting to know here is
來看田納西的選情，這里你會看到一個有趣的現象
Nashville Davidson County Democratic voting, suburbs heavily Republican
戴維森縣所在的納什維爾是泛藍的，而其周邊的城郊則一片深紅
Here's Memphis over here Democratic voting, the outer fringe Republican voting
同樣孟菲斯市也是泛藍的，而它的外圍也是一圈紅色
Eastern Tennessee, cities like Chattanooga and Knoxville, very Republican voting even in the cities and this goes way back
田納西東部，如查塔努加和諾克斯維爾市，則連城市中心都是泛紅的，追溯到過去
This is an area that when the Democrats and the Republicans did their geographical switch, it didn't happen here
該區域對共和黨的支持，即使在支持民主黨和共和黨的地理區域發生對調的時候也仍然堅定不移
It's been Republican voting since right after the Civil War
這里從南北戰爭時期就開始堅定支持共和黨
No plantations here, they really dislike the plantation culture of the center especially of the far west
這里沒有種植園，這里的居民對中部尤其是西部的種植園文化不感興趣
and has maintained this Republican voting pattern and again even though
從而維持了這種支持共和黨的模式，我們再次看到，即使
you get up in the place like Oak Ridge that get high levels of education but also Republican
是在橡樹嶺這種，受教育程度極高的地方也傾向共和黨
But we can find counties, a number of counties up here are the same
同時我們也找到一些縣和剛才描述的克萊縣情況相似
As we saw Stewart County, small, white, poor, fundamentalist
例如斯圖爾特縣，人少，白人為主，貧窮，基要主義盛行
George Wallace had a plurality here in 1968, yet voting for Kerry, not by a huge margin
華萊士在68年以明顯優勢拿下該縣，而它上次也傾向克里，雖然獲勝優勢不明顯
but a lot of the nearby counties with the same demographic characteristics, yet have Kerry being crushed
但它附近幾個人口特征與其相似的縣也都傾向克里
So what's the difference
這到底是為什么呢
